PRIMARIES: Something for Everybody

On election night the candidates were dead
tired, hollow-eyed and worried. As the first returns began to trickle
into Milwaukee from Wisconsin's countryside, Candidate Hubert Humphrey
began to brighten up. The magic numbers were going all his way. By 9
p.m. Humphrey held a 6,500-vote lead over his rival Jack Kennedy. In
his Pfister Hotel suite, Kennedy slumped in a chair watching
television; Brother Bob hovered anxiously over a telephone, jotting
down the reports of local legmen. Then, slowly, the numbers began to
change, and by 11 p.m. Kennedy was out in...